For the incidents recorded in this chapter vide Appendix.
«Never mind, dear. It`s a cheap price to pay in order to get that blackguard out of the movement. Don`t go away, you fellows. I want to talk to you.»
There was breathless silence among the persons who had gathered round the girl.
«That`s very well,» said Malone, «but so far as I can follow your methods it is some guide or control or higher Spirit who regulates the whole matter and brings the sufferer to you. If he can be cognizant, one would think other higher spirits could als
«There are many heavens. I am in a very humble one. But it is glorious all the same.»
MALONE was bound in honour not to speak of love to Enid Challenger, but looks can speak, and so their communications had not broken down completely. In all other ways he adhered closely to the agreement, though the situation was a difficult one
«Think it over. It may come to you later. We m! ust just leave it at that. I am only sorry for your friend.»
SILAS LINDEN, prize-fighter and fake-medium, had had some good days in his life – days crowded with incidents for good or evil. There was the time when he had backed Rosalind at 100 to 1 in the Oaks and had spent twenty-four hours of brutal deb
«That`s what I cannot understand, in spite of all my reading,» said Malone. «These authorities are all agreed that there is a material basis, and that this material basis is drawn from the human body. Call it ectoplasm, or what you like, it is human in
«Well, maybe at Easter we could do a week. It would be fine. I don`t mind readings and clairvoyance, but the physicals do try you. I`m not as bad as Hallows. They say he just lies white and gasping on the floor after them.»
NOTE ON CHAPTER 10
It followed on the exact lines of the other.
«Has he been searched?»
«I see a g! ood chance of it. I think she should be careful.»
«Seen Him! How could you see God? No, no, He is all round us and in us and in everything, but we do not see Him. But I have seen the Christ. Oh, He was glorious, glorious! Now, good-bye – good-bye!» She backed towards the cabinet and sank into the shad
«I don`t know. It confuses me.»
«That`s all very well,» said Bolsover. «I did not observe that Professor Challenger trusted so very much to the honour of Mr. and Mrs. Linden.»
«You will! Well» try that!» He stood before them with rage in his eyes and his great hands knotted. « Will you get out of the way?»
«You don`t seem to bring any influence with you. I get no impression. I am sorry but we can`t command these things. I get the name Edmund. Was that his name?»
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Malone scented copy.
«I expect Professor Challenger may wish to bring a friend or two of his own.»
«The long series has developed everyone to some extent, so ! that there is a high average output from each, instead of an extraordinary amount from one.»
«Well, certainly we have plenty of practice,» said Mailey. «You have seen enough of it, Mason, to know that.»
«Well, I did it for `is good, didn`t I? It was to cure `im of a bad `abit.»
«You ran it on the general lines that I suggested?» he asked.
«I will treat it fairly, I assure you.»
«You are certainly out of your senses.»
«That is generally admitted, is it not?»
«Victoria was queen. I had attuned my mind to matter and so it clung to matter. I did not believe in a future life. Now I know that I was all wrong, but I could not adapt my mind to new conditions.»